G40.401Billable
Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, not intractable, with status epilepticus
Chapter 6: Diseases of the nervous system
Billable Code
G40.401 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for generalized seizure
generalized seizure
View TemplatesGeneralized Epilepsy and Seizures
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Inclusion Terms
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Inclusion Terms
From G40.4:
- •Epilepsy with grand mal seizures on awakening
- •Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
- •Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures
- •Grand mal seizure NOS
- •Nonspecific atonic epileptic seizures
- •Nonspecific clonic epileptic seizures
- •Nonspecific myoclonic epileptic seizures
- •Nonspecific tonic epileptic seizures
- •Nonspecific tonic-clonic epileptic seizures
- •Symptomatic early myoclonic encephalopathy
From G40.40:
- •Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes without intractability
- •Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes NOS
Excludes2
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Excludes2
From G00-G99:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- •endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- •injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- •neoplasms (C00-D49)
- •symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Notes
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Notes
From G40:
- •the following terms are to be considered equivalent to intractable: pharmacoresistant (pharmacologically resistant), treatment resistant, refractory (medically) and poorly controlled